Quick general question: are you proposing this for pywikibot only? I
think the answer is yes, just making sure.

<quote name="Amir Ladsgroup" date="2015-05-05" time="07:05:48 +0000">
> Hey,
> Github has a huge community of developers that collaborating with them can
> be beneficial for us and them but Wikimedia codes are in gerrit (and in
> future in phabricator) and our bug tracker is in phabrictor. sometimes It
> feels we are in another planet.
> Wikimedia has a mirror in github but we close pull requests immediately and
> we barely check issues raised there. Also there is a big notice in
> github[1], "if you want to help, do it our way". Suddenly I got an idea
> that if we can synchronize github activities with gerrit and phabricator,
> it would help us by letting others help in their own way. It made me so
> excited that I wrote a bot yesterday to automatically duplicates patches of
> pull requests in gerrit and makes a comment in the pull request stating we
> made a patch in gerrit. I did a test in pywikibot and it worked well [2][3].
>
> Note that the bot doesn't create a pull request for every gerrit patch but
> it  creates a gerrit patch for every (open) pull requests.
>
> But before I go on we need to discuss on several important aspects of this
> idea:
> 1- Is it really necessary to do this? Do you agree we need something like
> that?
> 2-I think a bot to duplicate pull requests is not the best idea since it
> creates them under the bot account and not under original user account. We
> can create a plugin for phabrictor to do that but issues like privacy would
> bother us. (using OAuth wouldn't be a bad idea) What do you think? What do
> you suggest?
> 3- Even if we create a plugin, still a bot to synchronize comments and code
> reviews is needed. I wrote my original code in a way that I can expand this
> to do this job too, but do you agree we need to do this?
> 4- We can also expand this bot to create a phabricator task for each issue
> that has been created (except pull requests). Is it okay?
>
> I published my code in [4].
>
> [1]: https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot-core "Github mirror of
> "pywikibot/core" - our actual code is hosted with Gerrit (please see
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing"
> [2]: https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot-core/pull/5
> [3]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/208906
> [4]: https://github.com/Ladsgroup/sync_github_bot
>
> Best

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